[arch-haskell] Documentation in binary packages?

Don Stewart dons at galois.com
Sat Oct 12 07:36:21 UTC 2013


magnus:
> On 17/04/10 21:26, Don Stewart wrote:
> > magnus:
> >> I notice that haddock documentation isn't built into binary packages
> >> (haskell-dataenc, haskell-network, etc), while it is shipped with GHC
> >> itself.  Furthermore, all packages built from AUR will include haddock
> >> documentation by default.
> >>
> >> Is there any reason for *not* shipping haddock documentation with all
> >> pre-built packages?
> >>
> >> At the moment this is causing me grief because haskell mode for vim
> >> relies on local documentation for features like "add import statement
> >> for identifier under the cursor", and with the current situation it
> >> will only find identifiers in GHC and AUR-built packages.
> > 
> > I think all our packages should ship with documentation (they should be
> > of the form generated by cabal2arch, effectively)
> 
> I've raised http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19236
> 

Thanks.



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